(n.) One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist.
(n.) A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach.
Example Sentences:
(1) Equivalent 50-item CID W-22 word lists were recorded in English by three (Turkish, East Indian, and American) talkers and presented to 27 normal-hearing listeners representing each of these language groups.
(2) Finally, among the elderly hearing-impaired listeners, speech-recognition performance was correlated negatively with hearing sensitivity, but scores were correlated positively among the different talker conditions.
(3) He is what Jerry Seinfeld would have called a low talker.
(4) These results would suggest that speech intelligibility is reduced by whitening and peak clipping when more than one talker is present.
(5) There was trash talking though – motherflippers and Bad Words must fly about on court all the time ... Now and again you'd get trash talkers.
(6) Thirty-five normal-hearing listeners' speech discrimination scores were obtained for the California Consonant Test (CCT) in four noise competitors: (1) a four talker complex (FT), (2) a nine-talker complex developed at Bowling Green State University (BGMTN), (3) cocktail party noise (CPN), and (4) white noise (WN).
(7) When talkativeness is not resisted by the group it is tentative evidence that the talker is perceived as an appropriate, qualified, and legitimate leader.
(8) The results indicated that the esophageal talkers produced the highest intensity increase in the noise condition followed by the normal talkers and the artificial larynx talkers.
(9) He added: "South Africa has to stop feeling sorry for itself and be doers instead of talkers.
(10) ALDS deliver speech from the lips of the talkers to the ears of the listeners.
(11) Speaking pitch level self-perception was explored in a group of 11 young adult males who served both as talkers and listeners.
(12) Electromyographic (EMG) recordings were obtained from the levator palatini, superior pharyngeal constrictor, middle pharyngeal constrictor, palatoglossus, and palatopharyngeus muscles of three talkers of American English.
(13) Four highly proficient TE talkers produced the stimuli for the study.
(14) On the whole, talkers maintained their relative intelligibility across the four environments, although there was one exception which suggested that some voices may be particularly susceptible to degradation due to reverberation.
(15) The results showed that the processing of a talker's voice and the perception of voicing are asymmetrically dependent.
(16) The results suggest that the talkers used more effort in producing speech in the anesthetic condition and are untenable with the idea that intraoral air pressure constitutes an important feedback parameter in controlling articulation.
(17) Mean percentages of correct identification for the five talkers were 90% and 57% for the word-identification test and phonetic transcription, respectively.
(18) The purpose of this study was to investigate the Lombard effect on the speech of esophageal talkers, artificial larynx users, and normal speakers.
(19) Although Samar and Metz (1988) have addressed significant issues regarding the assessment of the intelligibility of hearing-impaired talkers, we cannot agree with their interpretation of their findings.
(20) Speech of deaf talkers has often been characterized as staccato, leading to the perception of improper grouping of syllables.
Tasker
Definition:
(n.) One who imposes a task.
(n.) One who performs a task, as a day-laborer.
(n.) A laborer who receives his wages in kind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Steve Tasker is on the field, but Jim Nantz and Phil Simms have been muted from the booth, meaning it is in the part of the stadium that does not have power.
(2) Smith died in 2010, but another retired officer, Jack Tasker, told Sky News the investigation into his alleged child abuse at Cambridge House care home was stalled because “other people were rather worried that if Cyril Smith went before a court, he would open his mouth”.
(3) During my trips round car boot sales I have spotted numerous bubble gum albums full of nothing but ‘Pat Crerands’, and usually accompanied by graffiti where the original collector had vented his frustration” – Ian Tasker.
(4) Today’s winner of our prizeless letter o’the day is: Ian Tasker.
(5) The schoolgirl, who attends Tasker Milward VC school in Haverfordwest, was reportedly praised for her fundraising efforts.
(6) Tasker told Sky News that senior officers repeatedly prevented him from properly investigating the case, and that – if Smith had been prosecuted – the case could have led to the fall of the minority Labour government at the time.
(7) For the “taskers” the benefits are less clear cut.
(8) The past five years have seen a proliferation of online platforms that match employers (known in cloud-speak as “requesters”) with freelancers (often referred to as “taskers”), inviting them to bid for each task.
(9) The Guardian understands that £3m was shared between four directors of Retail Acquisitions Limited – Dominic Chappell , the man who led the buyout of BHS, Eddie Parladorio, Mark Tasker and Stephen Bourne, who has since resigned.
(10) That isn't necessarily perfect as Buffalo Bills great Steve Tasker was listed as a wide receiver , though he made his greatest impact as a gunner on special teams .